Lately when trying to comment I’m getting the message Language_not_allowed even if I type something like ‘test’. Any idea what’s happening here?
Yes some subs require a language set afaik, so posting without changing the language thing next to post and preview from undetermined to a language will result in this error. It basically says, this language is not allowed, which means that maybe this sub for example allows English only.
I think.
I was very confused about this a month ago :D I don’t think this was a great addition to Lemmy.
This happens if a community specifies a set of allowed languages, and you are trying to post in a different one. It sounds like the UX and error messages should definitely be improved though. To reproduce this issue, can you say which community you tried to post in and what languages you had enabled at the time?
It was in the https://beehaw.org/c/chat community and I had no specific language selected in my settings. When I changed the language setting in the community to English I was able to post a comment.
That community only allows posting in English, and you probably tried to comment with the default language which is “undetermined”. In this case it should really be able to select English as default language, as its the only option.
Thank you.